{"id":1173,"date":"2017-12-04T20:33:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T10:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2018-06-02T20:30:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T10:30:03","slug":"the-musical-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/2017\/12\/04\/the-musical-experiments\/","title":{"rendered":"the musical experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some songs I have been working on over the last year or so.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/449416275&amp;color=%23c4a434&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"60%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is an unfinished song I am working on with a strange time signature;\u00a0bars of 5, 5, 5 &amp; 6 beats add up to 21, so it also makes three bars of 7, which is the rhythm of the &#8216;john&#8217; vocal, loosely anyhow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/452661006&amp;color=%23282828&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"60%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I composed this song as part of my Sanskrit studies, after we studied Abhij\u00f1\u0101nash\u0101kuntala. The kids helped me here. It is a bit of a rag tag effort.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/329136202&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"60%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the more wistful sounding songs I&#8217;m working on.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/313197911&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"60%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Covers:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/364578944&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"60%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Singing this, I was struck by the depth and beauty of Cohen&#8217;s lyrics. It&#8217;s incredible stuff, I have a lot of Cohen&#8217;s poetry, but I think his lyrical strength really lies with his songs. My fingerstyle guitar on this track is a bit brutal, and not quite accurate to the original. The picture here shows part of my set up in the studio as I was recording.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/364578005&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"60%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t quite get the high notes on Pink Moon, and I changed the arrangement around a little, putting the piano at the end. Such a strange, haunting song, from Drake&#8217;s last album. It is always interesting to play with Drake&#8217;s unusual tunings, but it means that you can&#8217;t just pick up any old guitar and play a Drake song without remembering what all the strings are supposed to be doing.<\/p>\n<p>Some more of my song experiments are on <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/muletonic\">soundcloud<\/a>. As I get my garage studio together I am finding it easier to make reasonable recordings for uploading. A lot of these I hope to improve on as I get better with the technology.<\/p>\n<p>This was my studio a few months ago, it is already much improved!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bw_stodio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1171 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bw_stodio-320x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bw_stodio-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bw_stodio-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bw_stodio-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some songs I have been working on over the last year or so. This is an unfinished song I am working on with a strange time signature;\u00a0bars of 5, 5, 5 &amp; 6 beats add up to 21, so it also makes three bars of 7, which is the rhythm of the &#8216;john&#8217; &#8230; <a title=\"the musical experiments\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/2017\/12\/04\/the-musical-experiments\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about the musical experiments\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}